CCE and AMD Athlon CPUs

[PeterMac]

Hi

I've downloaded two copies of CCE 2.5 from different sources. Both give me an Illegal Instruction exception as soon as the Encode button is clicked.

Should this software work with AMD chips as well as Pentiums?
Has anyone encountered this problem and been able to work around it?

-Pete

[kabanero]

Hi PeterMac

CCE 2.5 doesn't work with AMD chips. Find 2.62 or 2.64. I have AMD TB 1.4 GHz and 2.62 and 2.64 work great. But I didn't have luck with 2.5.

Regards.

[Kdiddy]

This is completely untrue..2.50 works perfectly with AMDs...are you framserving to CCE or what type of file are trying to encode?

[PeterMac]

I'm actually using it as it unzips!

Basically, I want to create MPEG2 files for use in SVCD and DVD compilations. Any tips you can give me will be very welcome.

As a matter of interest, I have just tried CCE 2.5 on my Vaio laptop, which uses a Pentium processor, and it did work then... So it does rather look as if the AMD CPU cannot handle some instructions that a Pentium can.

-Pete

[JJamez]

CCE 2.5 works fine with AMD for video encoding - audio is another story. I don't think there is any workaround, so encode your video through CCE and audio separately.

Keep in mind, CCE is really quirky... You may need to do some experimentation to get it working on any given machine.

JJ

[PeterMac]

Yes, I can believe that.
I'm not at all impressed with its look and feel, which seems more like a Visual Basic back-yard special than a piece of software costing what this stuff costs.

I am reasonably impressed with Tmpgenc though, and I wonder if its worth the effort persevering with CCE. Can you really tell the difference?

-Pete

[JJamez]

In a word, YES.. Not only is the quality superior, but the encoding times are MUCH faster.

That said, I wouldn't go pulling out your hair trying to get it working, but if you have a few hours to play around with it, its worth giving it a go.

Try downloading the newest DVD2SVCD and either try encoding a test chapter from a DVD or select AVI2SVCD (under Misc tab I believe) and test encode a random AVI. I could never get CCE going until I tried DVD2SVCD, and from playing around with the various parameter files DVD2SVCD produces (.avs for AviSynth and .ecl which is the CCE project config file), I was able to figure out what my problems were and can now encode straight through CCE.

If that last paragraph sounds like a chore to you, stick with TMPG - but if it sounds relatively enjoyable (I kinda like figuring out my PC problems), then its worthwhile.

JJ

[PeterMac]

Mmm, I'll do that - and thanks for your help.

-Pete